In case you haven’t been watching season 18 of “Survivor” (“Survivor: People Losing Weight”) 37-year-old contestant Ben Wade insists that other adults call him “Coach,” because he coaches a college girls’ soccer team. Correction: coached. He kinda just left his job in the middle of the season, and Southwest Baptist University fired him.

SBU athletic director Brent Good said the school bought out the remaining three months of Wade’s contract because Wade did not tell Good that he left the team at mid-season to be on television.

“He said he was going to be gone for a week,” Good said. “And the week went beyond that, which went beyond that, which went beyond that.” Good said Wade left the team on Oct. 22 — with two weeks left in the season — to go to the Brazilian Highlands to shoot the 18th season of the hit reality show. He returned to campus eight weeks later, on Dec. 17.

Wade said Good informed him of the decision Monday. He said the news was a surprise and that he hopes to continue his television career [as an actor] … “I’m going to be the next big thing on the big screen,” Wade said in a phone interview.

So, to recap, a coach abandoned his team during the season without an explanation as to where he was going, and he was surprised to learn that he was fired when he returned two months later. Sounds like he just might be self-involved enough to be a pretty good actor, actually. I wish him all the best… venereal diseases.

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02.23.09 at 11:49 am

UberEric

Ya but, hes got a pony tail and hebrew tattoo which im sure he showed all the chicks on the soccer team with his wild hait carelessly strewn over it whilst he looks up with his chin down into your soul…that was my best summer camp counselor ever…. im sorry something about jews?

02.23.09 at 11:59 am

Sex Cannon

I’m sorry, did you say “hit reality show”?

I call bullshit on this entire post.

02.23.09 at 11:59 am

Punch Rockgroin

Nothing says “Commitment to the team” like leaving halfway through the season.

Wait. Is this With Leather?

02.23.09 at 12:00 pm

inowassumemattismakingmoney

I dare you to go to Southwest’s website, observe their photos, and not pray that they open them up to a caption contest.

02.23.09 at 12:01 pm

Sex Cannon

Will he still have time to catch the 3:10 to Yuma???

02.23.09 at 12:15 pm

Tim Was Tim

When was somebody going to tell me that Steve Perry was on Survivor?

02.23.09 at 12:19 pm

310tojoba

Well played, Sex Cannon.

02.23.09 at 12:34 pm

AAJ

I have a friend down by SBU. Apparently, he told people he was getting a tumor or something cancerous looked at. Classy guy.

02.23.09 at 12:43 pm

OzoneRanger

Wade, who was fired from SBU on Monday, left for Brazil in October but told the team he was going for medical treatment, SBU freshman Rhiane Mitchell said.

What a tool.

02.23.09 at 1:09 pm

whowillsexmutombo?

well that was awkward. I read the headline and just immediately started packing my desk up.

I really wish I wouldn’t have told the HR lady to suck me off on the way to the elevator.

by the looks of the banner pic the only movies this dude will be starring in will gay porn.

02.24.09 at 6:16 am

m.

In case anyone was curious: No, he isn’t here to make friends.

05.04.09 at 3:59 am

Brenda

Seriously..he has a creep factor about him..He coached kids? yikes..He has molestor written all over him.

He seriously needs to be investigated

05.25.09 at 12:05 pm

McBeefy

In that picture up there, it looks like he was kind of pissed when the photographer asked “Hey coach can I get a picture of you”???, to which coach responded, “Just a minute, I’m right in the middle of my daily ass massage”.